Club Publications

The Club has an extensive archive of past bulletins, booklets and articles

These are all available to members free of charge. There is a full list below.  You can have as many as you like.

Webmaster’s note February 2022 – we are working to digitize these and upload the documents to the site – those we have completed have clickable links.

  • Plants of Mediaeval Elgin
  • Portessie Station, Terminus and Junction
  • Dr Gordon of Birnie
  • Trees in the Avenue at Altyre
  • Erosion at the Culbin Sands 1979
  • Bee Boles
  • Singing Games
  • Literary References to Romans and Moray
  • The Memoirs of Reverend James Allan and the state of support for the Presbyterian Church in Moray 1689-90
  • Notes on Elgin Window Glazing
  • The Mouth of the Spey in the 18th Century
  • Erosion in Burghead Bay and at the Culbin Sands in 1980
  • Trees measured during 1980 in Moray with heights over 100’ and/or girths over 10’
  • Electricity in the North
  • The “Costa da Sand”
  • Recent Boreholes for Water in Moray
  • Aerial reconnaissance in Moray
  • Glassaugh Windmill, Banffshire
  • The Burn, Glenesk
  • Letters From Canada
  • A Dunbar In America
  • Literary References To Romans and Moray – List No 2
  • Erosion at Culbin Sands and Burghead Bay in 1983
  • All and Heall The Barony of Culbin
  • The Coast Railway In Banffshire
  • Postscript to Letters To Lizzie
  • Literary References To Romans and Moray – List No 3
  • Dads Army. The Home Guard In Moray 1940-44
  • Erosion of The Moray Coast in 1988
  • Butterflies In Moray District
  • Spiders- A Casual Acquaintance
  • A Page In The Day of a Newspaper, 5th May 1917
  • The Carronade – The Gun That Defeated Napoleon
  • Birds In An Elgin Town Garden
  • Old and Remarkable Trees of Moray
  • Jack The Rogue
  • The Moray Coastline in 1985
  • Elgin’s Poet of the Hills- Andrew Young 1885-1971
  • Agriculture – At The Crossroads
  • The Moray Meal Riots of 1847
  • The ‘Moray’ Speyside Way
  • The Moray Coast In 1986
  • Old Maps and Estate Plans Of Moray
  • Robert Jamieson of Spindlemuir – A Transatlantic Search
  • The Moray Nimrod
  • The Moray Coast In 1987
  • The Submerged Forest In Burghead Bay
  • The Status and Breeding Biology of the Buzzard, Sparrowhawk and Merlin in Moray District
  • Poetry For Coastal Paths
  • Lachlan Shaw, Minister And Historian
  • MaCallan – The Parish That Never Was
  • Place Names In Badenoch
  • One Beekeeper’s Year
  • The Old Village of Findhorn
  • The Moray Coast in 1988
  • Botany In Churchyards
  • Forres – What’s In A Name?
  • From Council Of War To Town Council
  • Nature Notes of William Fordyce, Elgin 1885-88
  • The Moray Coast In 1989
  • The Problem of Late and post Glacial Sea Levels in the Inverness Firth
  • A Year In Grantown on Spey
  • A Paper on Tidal Currents read before the Elgin and Morayshire Scientific Society on 31st March 1838
  • The Designing and Building of Elgin Museum 1837-43
  • The Forgotten Botanist
  • The Moray Coast in 1990
  • Notes from Grantown-on-Spey
  • Botany in the Findhorn Valley, 1990-1991
  • Genealogy of the Gordon of Birnie Family
  • Dr William F Cumming; A ‘Moray Loon’ in Europe and Egypt. 1836-37
  • The Moray Coast in 1991
  • Butterfly Records – Highland Region
  • Blackpots Brick and Tileworks and Harbour c 1785-1974
  • John Grant Malcolmson
  • Fungi in Moray 1992
  • The Moray Coast in 1992
  • An Example of Cross Writing
  • Butterfly Recording – Highland Region
  • William Leslie, Minister and wit, 1747-1839
  • The Place Name Birnie
  • The Moray Coast in 1993
  • The Home Guard Rifle – P17
  • What’s In a Name? -Lossie
  • The Moray Coast in 1994
  • A Layperson’s Guide to the Umbellifers of Moray, Nairn & E Inverness
  • Duffus Castle, Morayshire
  • The History of The Moray Field Club
  • The Moray Coast in 1995
  • Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the Telephone, and Covesea
  • Gazebo at Milton Brodie, Morayshire
  • John Brodie-Innes of Milton Brodie
  • From Moray to Melbourne – a Duke’s Daughter in the Bush
  • The Moray Coast in 1996
  • Elgin Bridges over the River Lossie
  • The Moray Floods of 1st and 2nd July 1997
  • Fossil Footprints in the Permo-Triassic Sandstone of Hopeman
  • Keam Episcopal Church, Duffus
  • The Moray Coast in 1997
  • Where was James Ramsay MacDonald Born?
  • The Rodney Stone
  • The Moray Coast in 1998
  • Teaching and Life on the Moray Coast
  • Sequel to the July Floods of 1997
  • The Wildlife of RAF Kinloss
  • The Nigg Stone
  • St Giles, Patron Saint of Elgin
  • The Moray Coast in 1999
  • Buildings in Elgin, Past and Present
  • Witches’ Brooms
  • The Lossiemouth Field Club
  • Fishing and Fishing Settlements
  • The Romans in Moray
  • Obituaries
  • Excavations At Birnie
  • Cullen Banffshire
  • Notes on Lethen House
  • The history of the Ancient Oak Forest of Darnaway and its Timber
  • Those Flood Plains Again!
  • 3 British Infantry Division Training in Moray 1943-1944
  • The Clashach Skull
  • Uncovering Scottish Forests
  • Short Notes from Covesea
  • Excavations at Birnie – 2001 update
  • Excavations at Birnie Kirk
  • Birnie and the early Bishopric of Moray
  • Notes on Buildings in Findhorn
  • The Captain’s Tale
  • Dr George Gordon of Birnie
  • Comyn’s Road
  • The Window, the Screen and the Stair
  • History of Darnaway Forest
  • The Box
  • SNH – The Local Scene
  • Tuataras and Trias
  • Excavations at Birnie 2002
  • The Findhorn Stone
  • The Saga of the Skunk Cabbage
  • Unusual Trees of Moray
  • Arthur’s bridge, River Lossie, Moray
  • World War II Home Guard Sub-Artillery
  • World War II Coastal Battery
  • Mighty Mouse
  • Excavations at Lesmurdie
  • Flooded Out
  • Linkwood Road
  • Arthur’s Bridge, part II
  • Black Friday
  • The Pluscarden Pine
  • Update on Witches Broom
  • Finding Fumarias in Moray
  • Colin Campbell – a Scottish Swede
  • Birnie Update
  • Ancient Enzie Forest
  • Douglas Fir – Provenance of Interest – a Review
  • The Moray Gig
  • Arthur’s Bridge, Part III
  • Knockando Wool Mill
  • Moray’s Lost Flora
  • Inverugie Lime Kiln and Quarry
  • The Buried Tombstones of Morayshire
  • Birnie Update
  • A Winter Walk
  • Who were the Picts?
  • Gene-ius at Newton
  • Side-tracked: Genius or Geek
  • Gardenston & Crovie
  • A Special Occasion
  • The Order Pot – a Project Proposed
  • Birnie Update
  • Portmahomack
  • A 1949 Spring Sail
  • Pennan – a Coastal Settlement
  • Ex libris Thoma Urquharti
  • The Rise & Fall of the Rabbit Population
  • Jessie Kesson, Lady lane & Sherriff Rampini
  • A Domestic Ice House in Moray
  • A Review
  • Close Life in 19th Century Elgin
  • Birnie Update
  • A history of the Elgin Brewery 1784-1912
  • Presmuchrah Shepherds Bothy & Book Launch
  • Dallachy Airfield May 1943-May 1945
  • Fife Notes: Alexander Seton, sometime provost of Elgin
  • A life in letters: James William Grant, 3rd laird of Wester Elchies
  • Robert Russell of Elgin
  • Birnie Update
  • Elgin and the Plot to Kill Hitler
  • World War II at Aberlour House
  • The Carved Stones of the Commercial Bank
  • Notes around Grantown
  • Jock Inkson
  • Falconer Larkworthy in the North
  • Schooldays in Laggan
  • Milestones
  • Notes from Covesea for 2008
  • Moray’s Salt Industry
  • Doors Open Day – Altyre Estate
  • Lady Florence Gordon Cumming and Altyre
  • Sylvia Benton
  • A Centenary of Guiding
  • Notes from Covesea for 2009
  • Clarkly Hill finds

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